Chart of the Clan Chiefs

This is a chart of the line of chieftains from Adam to Ephraim
according to data given in the scriptures.

Except for Isaac, who passed the inheritance before his death... the clan chiefs
reigned until their death.
It can be seen from this chart that the reigning chief
lived long into the lives of great-grandchildren.
It appears that the inheritors
continued to live with the clan chief.
The other sons struck out on their own, started their
own tribes and believed as they wished.

Inheritor
Son # = ( )
firstborn(1)
nm=not
mentioned

Verse in Genesis

Calendar years lived from year 0

Begot
the
inheritor
at age__

Age
thisinheritordied

Ancestors alive during inheritor's life
CAPITALS= oldest living chief
(A)= age when ancestors died
(D)= age when descendents died(C)= this man's age when his father died

A=Shem(45), --, Shelah(18), Eber(79), --, --, --, --, --,
ABRAHAM(15), Isaac(120), Gen.29:30; 30:25
Joseph was born at the end of the second seven years
of Jacob's servitude. 47:9 He was 130 arriving in Egypt.
Joseph was 39. He lived in Egypt 17 years.(C)120

23. Joseph(11) "may he add"

30:24; 46:27 50:26

2202- 2312

31-39 begot Joseph; 147 when he blessed Ephraim

110

He was sold into slavery at 17. Made a ruler at 30. Reunited
with family at 39, and already had 2 sons. (C)Jacob died
when Joseph was 56.

24. Ephraim (2) "make fruitfulness"

x

x

x

x

He was 1-7 years old when Jacob came to Egypt,
and 18-24 when Jacob died, at which time he
was named the future clan chief. 50:23
Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim.